Higher yields, greater resilience to climatic changes or diseases—the demands on crop plants are constantly growing. To ...

Grist reports urban farms improve city livability by enhancing food security, reducing heat, and promoting health while ...

The rootstock of a coffee plant can live for 20 to 30 years. In that time, a generation, it will have good years and bad ...

We spoke to officials at the Cedar Rapids facility and Coralville's Wastewater Treatment Plant to find out how these plants ...

Researchers have gained new insights into the genetic basis of rye reproduction. They have demonstrated how plants recombine their genes and the extent to which this process is influenced by ...

In 1997, at age 19, Toby Kiers talked her way into the Smithsonian's renowned tropical research institute on Barro Colorado, an island in the middle of the Panama Canal. The scientists studied the ...

Q: I have a chain-link fence separating my property from my neighbor’s. They have a bird of paradise and a coconut palm (that hatched from a coconut) that are destroying my fence. We’ve spoken to him, ...

Every day, I get my weather forecast from our local TV newscast. In our outdoor business, the weather can have a great impact on our day. This is why I am glad we have several great meteorologists on ...

This is a time of abundance for Mother Earth’s creatures, with food sources available everywhere. Flowers provide nectar and pollen, and plants offer foliage, stems, and roots. Caterpillars, grubs, ...

Beetleweeds also have a somewhat unpleasant odor reminiscent of skunk. Credit: Henry Crane Andrews (1803) A study on beetleweed shows that autopolyploid plants with different chromosome sets can ...

Plants are vastly intelligent in ways many people may not understand or appreciate. They have to be, since most of them move very little (if at all), so they require complex chemistry to communicate ...